Queens Gimbap — Attraction in Logan City

With thanks to @k_freshmart.chermside 🫰🏼 We finally got to try @queens_gimbap 💓🙌🏼💓 Very generous with their filling to rice ratio, each gimbap is lovingly handmade and very fresh tasting!!

Gimbap is a seaweed rice roll, a Korean dish that is made from cooked rice and other ingredients of choice rolled in a dried sheet of laver seaweed - and cut into about six or more pieces. Because of its shape and content, many have confused with sushi rolls.

The ingredients of this dish are what gave it its name. “Gim” is Korean for seaweed while “bap” is Korean for rice. However, there are is an unlimited variety of ingredients that can be added inside a Gimbap, which is why there technically isn’t a specific recipe.

The origins of gimbap are debated. Some sources suggest it originates from Japanese norimaki, introduced during Japanese colonial rule, while others argue it is a modernized version of bokssam from the Joseon era. The dish is often part of a packed meal, or dosirak, to be eaten at picnics and outdoor events, and can serve as a light lunch along with danmuji (yellow pickled radish) and kimchi.

Production of gim (김) in Gyeongsang and Jeolla provinces is reported in books from the fifteenth century, such as Gyeongsang-do Jiriji and Sinjeung Dongguk Yeoji Seungnam. Yeoryang Sesigi (열양세시기), a Joseon book written in 1819 by Kim Mae-sun (김매순), refers to cooked rice and filling rolled with gim as bokssam (복쌈; transcribed using the hanja 縛占, pronounced bakjeom in...

This is some of the best Korean food that I've eaten in SEQ.

I was hoping for my wife to try the gimbap - but this place had experienced what appeared to be a busy lunch service and was sold out of many options. Fortunately, she's also a bibimbap fan so I went that way - bulgogi for her, spicy pork for me (pictured)

Speedy and friendly service from the lady at the counter. The dining room was quiet and clean despite the number of diners. I made the mistake of taking disposable cutlery at the counter - it's actually supplied (in true Korean fashion with a stainless steel spoon and chopsticks)

The food was something else. A light, savoury and delicious broth to start, followed by an enormous bibimbap that was well worth the $21 (there was around two cups of rice hiding below the vegetables and meat). The pork was beautifully tender - not stringy like many Korean outlets. The gochujang sauce had just the right amount of "funk" to it (very different to many places that have one dimensional flavour)

I'm not usually in Brisbane much, but will absolutely return - this was a...

This place would suit those who were after quick grab and go gimbap more than dining in. The counter staff was impatient and not helpful; she was kind of rushing us to decide what we wanted rather than trying to accommodate us (though we were the only customers in front of the counter at that time). The menu wasn’t clear; one of the lunch deals stating a noodle with a half size gimbap (5 pieces), so we wanted to know what kind of noodle and whether we were allowed to choose a type of gimbap. Understandable that it only came with a classic gimbap, but not sure of the noodle that she only mentioned “Korean noodle” as we weren’t Korean and might not know exactly what in the noodle that we might not be able to eat. We left her serve the next customer first and she didn’t seem to bother us. We ended up with just a serve of gimbab that was made with freshly ingredient but sort of dry. Nothing...